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NetBeans Progresses toward 6.7 Major ReleasePosted by editor on June 10, 2009 at 9:02 AM PDT
The NetBeans team is inviting the community to assess whether the current NetBeans 6.7 (Release Candidate 2) is ready for FCS release. The team has created a Community Acceptance Survey, where NetBeans 6.7 users can provide the development team with their assessment of RC2: Is NetBeans IDE 6.7 ready for FCS release? If you have already downloaded and tested the latest Release Candidate build, we would like to know what you think. Please follow the link below and tell us about your experience! The survey will be opened till June 18th. NetBeans 6.7 is a major release that includes integrated support within the IDE for Kenai-hosted projects, via the new Kenai window and the new Team menu for Kenai project management. What's significant about this is that it facilitates coordinated development for development teams whose members are geographically separated. In essence, Kenai integration makes NetBeans a superb platform for "development in the cloud," precisely what's needed for open source projects.
James Gosling has been enthusiastic about NetBeans 6.7 since he began using the beta version in April: It's real impressive: there's a lot more to NB 6.7 than the developer cloud, but the cloud support is the standout feature. We're just beginning, but it's already transformed the way I work. NetBeans 6.7 also includes:
See the NetBeans IDE 6.7 Release Information for more details. Among the things that set NetBeans apart from other IDEs is that it is by nature customizable to the user's needs. It is designed to be extensible. The background NetBeans vision is driven largely by the fact that NetBeans really is a community project. There are multiple mailing lists, a #netbeans IRC channel, and you can follow NetBeans on Twitter. The NetBeans community is large and diverse. Serving that community as resulted in a powerful IDE with more features and capabilities than an individual developer is likely to use. For this reason, significant effort was put into NetBeans 6.7 to ensure that it fits itself to the user's needs. The IDE is not monolithic: features that you as an individual developer aren't using are not automatically loaded. In other words, the IDE automatically tailors itself to what you're working on, saving you time and computer memory. The NetBeans 6.7 Community Acceptance Survey The NetBeans 6.7 Community Acceptance Survey is another illustration of the community aspect of NetBeans development. From now through June 18, the community is invited to test and assess NetBeans 6.7 RC2 and provide feedback through the survey. The survey specifically asks for feedback regarding:
The information provided by the community through the will help the core development team make the final changes that will lead to the NetBeans 6.7 FCS release, currently scheduled for late June. In Java Today, the Netbeans community has published the NetBeans IDE 6.7 Release Candidate 2 Release Information: "The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Groovy, JavaFX and C/C++. It is supported by a vibrant developer community..." Mark Reinhold reports on the OpenJDK Interim Governance Board: New Members: "I'm pleased to announce that Sun has appointed Martin Buchholz (Google) and Andrew Haley (Red Hat) to the OpenJDK Interim Governance Board. For those who don't already know them, some background: Martin Buchholz is a software engineer at Google. A developer of the JDK core libraries at Sun for many years, he continues to contribute to OpenJDK, especially in the areas of collections, concurrency, and subprocesses..." And m_muhammadali provides instruction on Improving Code Quality: "In this article I discuss a static analysis tool that finds defects in Java programs. Static analysis tools can find real bugs and real issues in your code. You can effectively incorporate static analysis into your software development process. FindBugs is an open source static analysis tool that analyzes Java class files, looking for programming defects..." In today's Weblogs, Jim Driscoll found himself surprised regarding UI Latency: "Ben Galbraith did a short experiment on UI Latency at JavaOne. The results were not precisely what I expected." Kohsuke Kawaguchi talks about Starting Hudson slave from Live USB media: "Using Hudson swarm slave plugin to boot a PC from USB and hook it up as a Hudson slave. Translated from Japanese." And Fabrizio Giudici investigates Writing a UI controller in JavaFX: "While JavaFX is great for the UI (binding, declarative stuff, etc...) it's also a good candidate for writing controllers (in a MVC).Of course I'm not saying I'd write a complete application (I mean, a back-end) in JavaFX - JavaFX is..."
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